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Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
— Catherynne M Valente
Abstruse dullness is actually a much more effective shield than is secrecy.
— David Foster Wallace
For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
— Anonymous
The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.
— Henry David Thoreau
'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
— Dave Morris
You will never go there. You have a problem with Mac, you work it out with me. I am her shield, I am her second F***ing skin.
— Karen Marie Moning
The world's most bada** Viking yard gnome is on the counter by the cash register using a dinner plates as a shield and a steak knife as a sword
— Libba Bray
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
— Anonymous
My shield might make me an asshole, but your shield acts more like a cage. It keeps you locked up.
— E.M. Abel
King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur.
— Lloyd Alexander
How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?
— Stephen King
A fence can protect you from cows but not from tanks! In life, there is no complete shield.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me.
— Samantha Mumba
She was dressed as a nearly invisible shower, wearing only a raincoat, and I sold her an umbrella that would shield her from heavenly I love yous.
— Jarod Kintz
When you are dealing with an invisible enemy,
use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. — Toba Beta
use most resources as shield, and a bit as a bait. — Toba Beta
Being unpopular is never easy; but being unpopular in a good cause is a shield against despair.
— Roger Scruton
I watched 'The Shield.' That was a big show for me.
— Theo James
Zeal is ever the buckler and shield of a true soldier.
— George C. Wallace
The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield.
— Patricia Briggs
...it was much easier to let life beat you down, to put up a shield and hide behind walls when life kicked you around, than it was to keep on smiling.
— Jay Crownover
And tell Ser Donnel to add a weathervane to his shield.
— George R R Martin
Oh my lord, I hurt," he mumbled, licking his lips and spitting out a piece of his helmet face shield. Shatterproof my ass. Slowly
— Evan Currie
Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
— Criss Jami
I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone
— Feist
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
— St. Jerome
Fighting a dragon without a shield or a sword. That is what losing the one we love means.
— Daniel Marques
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
— Winston Churchill
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
— Billy Hughes
Every time you are hurt, you get a better chance to build a better shield!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.
— Nicholas G. Carr
Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You need something that puts a little distance between what you really are and what you want to show; it's a shield, a protection.
— Nicolas Ghesquiere
Peace without shield and weapon is a no man's land.
Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested. — Toba Beta
Shield and weapon without war won't be thoroughly tested. — Toba Beta
The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.
— Ralph E. Reed Jr.
Lozen is my right hand ... strong as a man , braver than most, and cunning in strategy, Lozen is a shield to her people.
— Victorio
Courage is a divine shield and spear.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Writing didn't carry the same risks as speaking. You couldn't be shouted down or stared at. The page was both a proxy and a shield.
— Samantha Shannon
Sovereignty cannot be a shield for tyrants to commit wanton murder, or an excuse for the international community to turn a blind eye to slaughter.
— Barrack Obama
Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.
— Chris Lange
Sand dan Glokta, shield to the helpless. Is it ever too late to be ... a good man?
— Joe Abercrombie
The woman from across the street edged along the side porch with some silver-wrapped casserole thing clutched to her chest like a shield.
— Jennifer Skully
Thought fights with thought; out springs a spark of truth From the collision of the sword and shield.' W. S. LANDOR.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
I live in a shrinking world where the only thing I can trust is Maven's obsession. Like the manacles, it is a shield and a slow, smothering death.
— Victoria Aveyard
It's what she raised me to be. It's all I know, Anya. Protection. I was born then I was raised to be a shield.
— Kristen Ashley
I'm a huge fan of things like The Wire and The Shield.
— Donal Logue
Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield
— Nelson DeMille
It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.
— Corrie Ten Boom
A brave man is seldom unkind.
— Pretty Shield
You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
You do not swing in a shield wall, you stab. May the gods ever send me enemies who swing their blades.
— Bernard Cornwell
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
— John Updike
And (Allah made) the kindness to parents as a protectional (shield) to His wrath and displeasure.
— Fatima Bint Muhammad
A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Because a warrior carries helmet and breastplate for his own protection, but his shield for the safety of the whole line.
— Steven Pressfield
Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.
— Sarra Manning
A Spartan woman, as she handed her son his shield, exhorted him saying, "As a warrior of Sparta come back with your shield or on it."
— Plutarch
He is asking us if we can truly bear hearing the story. Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
— Dan Simmons
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
— Frank Herbert
I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
— Dorothy Parker
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.
— Laurel Lea
Ya Allah, envelop our hearts with a shield of your light and mercy, so the pain doesn't penetrate.
— Yasmin Mogahed
Defeat anger, stop using it as a shield against truth, and you will find the compassion you need to forgive the people you love.
— Glenn Beck
I feel that the truth is simply the truth. And that to shield someone from it is only a manner of treating that person with a lack of respect.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
— Nancy Mitford
Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.
— Lisa Unger
A planetary shield being a fairly straightforward thing, there was hardly ever a problem with the system.
— Alan Dean Foster
God is a shield to the sacred souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Truth is a weapon and lies are a necessary shield.
— Mark Lawrence
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression.
— James K. Polk
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
— Edmund Burke
If he were any stiffer, Alanna thought wryly, I'd paint a design on him and use him for a shield.
— Tamora Pierce
He built his persona as a shield around his person, because he knew very well how little his person could withstand.
— Eleanor Catton
As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the LORD is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. 2 SAMUEL 22:31
— Stormie O'martian
May God be a pillar of shield for us.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Build a shield between yourself and the descriptions of the world that everyone else has.
— Frederick Lenz
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
I was trying to be a human shield. I thought if he shouted at me and got it out of his system, he'd have nothing left for you.
— Sylvain Reynard
In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It
— George MacDonald Fraser
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
— Meshell Ndegeocello
Now he knew his way around a ward-and-shield or two. He could chuck a magic missile with the best of them. He was a damn one-man magic-missile crisis.
— Lev Grossman
I wanted him to take over. I wanted to follow his lead, not because I was weak, but because every good warrior used a shield.
— Cambria Hebert